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Today we’re reviewing a spot that is especially convenient for our Bellevue real estate students: Persepolis Specialties and Café, located right here in our office complex. Persepolis consists of a small specialty grocery store featuring Persian and Mediterranean items, and a café serving a rathe...
08/14/2012
Whether you went to grade school 15 years ago or 45, you probably used flashcards to help you memorize facts (like multiplication tables). While this kind of rote learning doesn’t replace critical thinking, it definitely has an important place in studying for a license exam. In fact, for the real...
08/02/2012
Welcome back to our Instructor of the Month series. This month, we’re talking with Theda Redwine, an instructor and the real estate program coordinator at North Lake College in Irving, Texas. Rockwell: How long have you been teaching? Theda: I have taught real estate courses at the college level...
07/19/2012
The Towbes Group of Santa Barbara, owner of 2,000 apartment units spread across 13 complexes in California, recently announced that tenants can no longer smoke in any of the units. (Current tenants that smoke were given a grace period to comply.) Towbes’ move was at least partly motivated by a Ca...
06/19/2012
For today’s restaurant review, we visited a relatively new spot: Wanta Thai, which opened at the end of 2011. Although Wanta Thai has a Redmond address, it’s just up the street from our office here in Bellevue—close enough for a quick lunch outing. We ordered the pad woon sen with chicken (stir-f...
06/08/2012
Contrary to popular belief, multiple choice questions aren’t always the easiest. Take a multiple choice question that’s open to more than one interpretation, throw in a couple of tricky answer choices, and if you’re not entirely on top of the material—sometimes even if you are—you’ve got a proble...
05/24/2012
Say What? Ads That Sell   You’ve got the listing, but now you need to attract buyers by writing a killer real estate ad. There are lots of ads out there, so how are you going to make your ad (and your client’s property) stand out? Tony Garcia has some ideas in his blog, so read on for all the det...
05/09/2012
This month’s book, Home Seller Secrets: What Top Moving Realtors Already Know That Every Home Seller Should by B. Worthmoore, isn’t really a book for real estate agents; it’s for home sellers. Still, you may want to pick up a few copies anyway, because this is the kind of book that can help you p...
05/04/2012
Do you listen to music when you study? Over the years, different theories have touted the benefits of listening to classical music during study time to enhance mental performance. You may recall the Mozart Effect, the idea that classical music boosted the intelligence of very young children. More...
05/02/2012
A couple of months ago we surveyed our Fundamentals class asking why people were going into a real estate these days. (You can see our blog entry summarizing the results here.) With the real estate market picking up a bit, we’re inspired!   A few weeks ago we spotted an article in Inman News summ...
04/27/2012
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